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One of the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram has been found with a baby in a forest.

One of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls has been found and reunited with her family.

Amina Ali was found carrying a baby on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest by a vigilante group.

BBC News reports Ali is the first girl to be rescued since the mass capture two years ago that saw 219 Nigerian girls kidnapped during the night.

Leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Chibok, Aboku Gaji, told the BBC the first hug shared between Ali and her mother was so fierce, they had to be physically stablised.

“When we arrived at the house… I asked the mother to come and identify someone. The moment she saw her, she shouted her name: ‘Amina, Amina!’,” he said.

“She gave her the biggest hug ever, as if they were going to roll on the ground, we had to stabilise them.”

Ali was found with her four-month-old baby and a “suspected Boko Haram terrorist” who claimed to be the girl’s husband.

Community leader Hosea Abana Tsambido told the BBC that Ali said the other girls remained in the forest apart from six who had already died.

ABC news reported that Nigerian army spokesperson Sani Usman confirmed Ali as being one of the girls taken in 2014.

“Preliminary investigation shows that she is indeed one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists on 14th April 2014 in Chibok,” he said.

The initial capture saw 276 girls taken during the night by gunmen and loaded onto trucks.

Some of the girls managed to escape in the initial hours after the abduction by jumping off the trucks and rolling into bushes.

The abduction led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign led by such figureheads as Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.